Sounds like a good candidate for a Beta Feature
*Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation M : +1 415 609 4043 | : @JaredZimmerman<https://twitter.com/JaredZimmerman> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Steven Walling <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Wednesday, November 13, 2013, Brion Vibber wrote: > >> I would strongly consider totally redoing how references are displayed to >> use a popup light box with citation cut n paste tools. >> >> No caret or arrow needed for return in this situation... :) >> >> -- brion >> > Yeah having to scroll up and down the page at all is bad. > > For reference here ;) I think enwiki has solved this problem partially > with Yair Rand's Reference Tooltips. > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reference_Tooltips<http://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reference_Tooltips> > > I think that's implemented as a site wide gadget on enwiki still? It might > be a good hacking project (OPW or GSOC?) to turn it in to an extension with > accompanying i18n. Or maybe in the long run it should be packaged with the > rest of the logic that generates refs, instead of being a standalone > enhancement. > > Steven > > > > > On Nov 12, 2013 12:22 PM, "Quiddity" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Most Wikimedia sites use the mediawiki default of an Arrow ↑ to backlink >>> from citation-contents to the superscripted number/letter. >>> >>> English Wikipedia changed the default in 2006, to use a caret ^ and a >>> few dozen other wikis have copied that. >>> >>> We'd like to examine the problems with the Arrow, to see if they can be >>> fixed. >>> >>> We need help browser-testing and diagnosing and fixing the problem(s). >>> >>> This may have strong relevancy to the Typography Update in Beta Features. >>> >>> I've tried to summarize everything so far, at >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Cite_messages# >>> Testing_and_summary_so_far >>> >>> Thanks! >>> Quiddity >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Design mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design >>> >> > > -- > Steven Walling, > Product Manager > https://wikimediafoundation.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design > >
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